Vernon McIntyre's APPALACHIAN GRASS

Band Members

 Vernon McIntyre     Kitty McIntyre     Emily Baehr     Robert Campbell     Tammy Powers

Kitty McIntyre plays fiddle with Vernon McIntyre's APPALACHIAN GRASS.


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Don't be fooled, Kitty really gets down to business at the Famous Old Time Music Company.

 

KITTY
 

Raised with a background of classical music, Kitty started piano in 2nd grade and violin in 4th.  She played in the school orchestra through high school, but then put her fiddle in the case.  Her plans included college and graduate school, not becoming a fiddler in a bluegrass band. 

 

However, her brother Andy changed everything when he started taking banjo lessons from Cincinnati's best banjo player, Vernon McIntyre.  The two men became close friends and brother Andy introduced Kitty to the bluegrass sound and to Vernon and the Appalachian Grass.  She fell in love with the music and Vernon or maybe with Vernon and then the music.  In the early 1980s, she took her fiddle back out of the case and practiced 'til she could join the band and travel on the road with them.  And that's exactly where she has been ever since!

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A Poem for Kitty McIntyre
by Dave Seagram, 2003
 

 

 

Ain’t it cool,
Ain’t it nifty!
The ‘Angel of Elmwood’
Has just turned Fifty!!

  Her playing is legend
And singing divine
You can usually still see her
At number 6019 Vine.

The store is a classic
It’s one of a kind
And if you look closely,
There’s always a find. 

Her fingers – still nimble
And so is her brain.
Keeping track of Vernon,
It must be a strain.

Her wit can be caustic
And so can her lip
So just treat her fairly
Would be a good tip.

Her hair may be graying
But stooped she is not.
There’s no way you could say
That she’s all gone to pot!

Her face is still youthful,
So say it ain’t so –
That she really was born
Such a long time ago!

 

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Updated:  3/16/09

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Hours at the Wapakoneta Store
Tuesday thru' Friday   11am to 7pm
Saturday 10am to 4pm
20322 SR 33, Wapakoneta, OH  45895
419-568-1220
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Thanks to Mark Alexander for taking the "Duet" picture shown on our webpage.
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